Yup, this game was made by the David X. Cohen of The Simsons, Futurama, and cromulent fame. He was once addicted to arcade games and was determined to be the first to make a Qix clone for Apple][. He did, completely coded in assembly. Submitted only to Brøderbund for publishing; they rejected it. A loss for videogame arts became a win for animation arts. There is but one known copy of this game remaining on a 24 year old 5.25" disk pinned to the cork board in Mr. Cohen's office. Yes, pinned, its a type of copy protection. The game actually checks a section of the disk looking for a 'hole' in the data; and there's literally a hole in it. To create a working copy of the disk, one would need to puncture the copy in precisely the same place. Mr. Cohen has an open invitation for geeks to help him dump the game for emulation purposes. So far, no takers.
Oh, and Dr. Zoidberg from Futurama got his name from this game.
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